The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1)

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  Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

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  Yet,

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  if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk,

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  until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword,

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  as was said three thousand years ago.

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  So still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether,

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  with malice toward none, with charity for all.

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  with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.

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  Let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

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  to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle,

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  and for his widow and his orphan,

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  to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves.

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  And with all nations.

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  The unmistakable tones there of Daniel Day-Lewis playing Abraham Lincoln, of course.

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  And Abe was speaking there at his second inauguration as President of the United States on the 4th of March,

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  1865.

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